Mysterious UFO flying above Namib desert waterhole

Viewers and chatters were left stunned after they have seen a 'UFO' flying through the air in the Namibia desert.

[@Red_Cap1231]

Info: Namib early morning sighting on Oct 30th 05:15am, Re-entry of a Chinese rocket propulsion stage from launch of crew to Chinese space station on 12 Aug, 2023. (Norad ID 57625)

[@hotfightinghistory9224]

Thanks for the clear and concise explanation!

[@Dupertron-lo9pz]

Did it burn up completely? If not where did the debris land?

[@Kelli78]

Thank you so much for the information however, I was kind of hoping it would be a UFO 🛸 😊

[@steviewolfeofficial]

China has a space station?

[@michaelripley4528]

Yeah you Can tell its breaking up💯

[@smokejaguar67]

I think it could be space junk burning up on re-entry but you are right - by definition, It definitely is an unidentified flying object.

[@stefanschleps8758]

With such a steady exhaust? It's not a meteor and its not a satellite. Most ET craft do not have any type of propulsion flames no exhaust at all, but not all of them. Space junk? But where's the color in the exhaust? All the same its very cool.

[@GM_-]

​@@stefanschleps8758it's a propulsion stage from a rocket carrying a crew of Chinese astronauts to the Chinese space station.

[@chrisbradley1192]

Yes, you can see it breaking up towards the end of the video.

[@sam510938764]

@@stefanschleps8758 It's not exhaust. It's a plasma trail caused by friction heating with the Earth's atmosphere at high entry speeds. The lack of colour is due to the night vision mode of the camera. Take a peek at the channel's other vids and you'll see why.

[@falsemcnuggethope]

Entry wouldn't stay so constant for so long. This is definitely a propulsion stage exiting.

[@Luceforall]

It may well be a man-made UFO, but it's still a great spectacle! Thank you for sharing it with us!

[@NamibiaCam]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@FrigFrogGaming]

Hehe hi Luce! I see you in the nefl eagle chat lives funny to see your comment here!

[@Luceforall]

Hahaha I know your name too - it's a small world :) @@FrigFrogGaming

[@FrigFrogGaming]

@@Luceforall forsure haha

[@Luceforall]

😀@@FrigFrogGaming

[@kendunn2218]

Thankyou. That was worth seeing. ✨

[@nathancorey4700]

I have seen this a few times. I would say it’s space junk re-entering the earths atmosphere.

[@prettynoose888]

Wow, incredible footage❤

[@rolandlemmers6462]

Very cool! That was something big entering Earths atmosphere.

[@barney6888]

An amazing catch. I'm forwarding to Mr. MBB !!

[@Mr_Pekka]

Looks amazing, thank you channel of Namibia Desert, and thank you Angela for sharing this link 🙏

[@MicheleJane]

Wow beautiful. Looks more like a comet or meteor.

[@hiradios8527]

Ja aber sieht man die nicht nur für wenige Sekunden?

[@Teng711]

Might be a meteor, might be a satelilte, might be the ISS or a plane Illuminated by the sun....

[@ischwi]

@@Teng711I think it's a plane

[@juradodevoz]

To me it looks like a poop

[@TheThreeScoots]

Nah, it’s definitely a alien’s space ship

[@Ofinfinitejest]

Burn up of space debris, like an old satellite. It's splits into two pieces at the end, and has a a fire and smoke trail. This is hundreds of times too slow for a meteor, by the way.

[@steveclark86]

Best waterhole on planet Earth..🌍

[@mrmohd9809]

Yes A Lot The Animals Drinking From Waterhole This The Blessed . God Bless Namibia And All.

[@diecastpro]

Wow! That’s cool. Most likely a meteor.

[@diecastpro]

At 05:05:16ish there was another light that flashed in a similar location as this one’s origin.

[@diecastpro]

Really wild it lasted that long in the sky without exploding. Glad it wasn’t larger. The animal never looked up so must have not had any sound associated with it.

[@stephenphillips4984]

No. It is travelling far too slow for a meteor and too fast for a comet. Definitely a UFO or manmade debris burning up.

[@WordsnCollision]

And on the 85th anniversary of Orson Wells' "War of the Worlds" radio broadcast... surely a coincidence.

[@user-fd6mm2ep6g]

Not Orson, but Herbert! Orson Welles - actor.... ))))

[@blueberriesrfine5538]

Very cool!

[@MeanBeanComedy]

The UFO is now and IFO. Well-done! 😎👍🏻

[@Chip-Formula]

I watch this live camera all the time. I was just watching yesterday when this happened but I missed it...crazy.

[@andrewmurphy4116]

That's definitely something first of all becoming a fire ball, and then breaking up as it hits the thicker layers of the atmosphere. You can see it happening in the last 15 seconds of the video. (Sorry, didn't see the update)

[@falsemcnuggethope]

It's not breaking up, you just see it from a different angle

[@andrewmurphy4116]

@@falsemcnuggethope The update I missed that I was apologizing for was the fact that it was a Chinese booster burning up on reentry.

[@falsemcnuggethope]

@@andrewmurphy4116 wow, I may not have read the message that far. Anyway, it's interesting trying to understand what to look for when you don't yet know what is going on. I don't think an entry even would ever be this constant and slow. Not sure how a controlled entry would look like, probably not this bright?

[@andrewmurphy4116]

@@falsemcnuggethope I've only ever seen them on video myself. Try entering something like "Space junk burning up on reentry" into KZbin. It does seen to have a consistent very bright start, and then an almost breaking up pattern towards the end. As did unfortunately the space shuttle. Infact, scratch "unfortunately" and replace with "tragically"

[@mhoroky]

It's a comet.

[@eligebrown8998]

I want to say meteor but its moving way to slow. You definitely have some great videos. Thanks for sharing this.

[@NamibiaCam]

Thanks for watching.

[@AnitaDil]

Is it Starlink? I think it’s over that way according to the tracker

[@jayman9315]

I hope not.... it would have been a critical failure. I do believe they did launch another starlink into orbit recently tho.... maybe the returning rocket? But probably 👽👾 🙃

[@polocarthaigh893]

Crossing the Backbone of Night! That was great.

[@nuru4505]

I saw a meteor similar to this. That's when "Hayabusa" fell into the atmosphere.

[@terrycoats172]

Way too slow for a meteor.

[@martinhoare9525]

It was Chinese satellite DUMMY MASS 3/SQX-1 re-entering and breaking up. There are several websites where details of launches and re-entries are listed 🙂

[@abarbaradorsey3713]

Please share

[@juliomramirezo]

Wow!

[@sd01]

I saw something very similar to that in the mid 80's when I was a kid, though it only lasted about 10 seconds. Most probably a man made satellite coming back down at a very shallow reentry angle.

[@paulapitman7769]

We saw it too about the same time moving very fast across the sky above the Namib desert near Namib Desert Camp. A short while after this meteor, at 4.27 am, we saw a most unusual line of 20 lights, in a sraight line looking rather like those of a railway carriage, moving in a similar trajectory to the meteor. It had no tail, and no flashing lights. The sequence of the lights from left to right was six in the first group, two spaces, single, two spaces, two, space, three, space, one, space, one, three spaces, one, two spaces, three, two spaces, one, space, one. Did anyone else see this? We have two images taken with a Sony RX10 camera and was witnessed by five of us!

[@claudiawoo8068]

Starlink

[@astrogeo1]

From the description by @paulapitman this points very strongly to being the 2nd stage of a SpaceX Falcon9 rocket carrying another batch of Starlink Internet satellites. As is the fact, the first stage lands in the sea or on the launch pad, while 2nd stage is expendable and burns up in the atmosphere. Would surprise me if this is not a SpaceX Starlink launch. It is way to slow for a meteor.

[@CheshireSmile33]

I was able to scroll back on the livestream of this camera and at 5:28 am I saw a slow and steady moving object going across the sky! I made a screen recording of it. It's kinda faint tho.

[@paulapitman7769]

Sounds like you are conflating the two strange things in the sky which were separate in time. The “meteor” was followed about 12 minutes later by the “train carriage” lights we observed. All the lights of this latter object were on and of the same intensity. You may well be correct about Elon Musk being behind this one!

[@CheshireSmile33]

@paulapitman7769 what I saw at the 5:27/5:28 am timestamp on the camera looks like a collection of steady dots moving into the distance. It's not that bright only because it's the livestream cam so I cant zoom in on it. But I used your information of 5:27 am to find it which was pretty exciting.

[@GaryMcKinnonUFO]

Looks like a meteor scraping the atmosphere.

[@bambulkomccloud3983]

From the Space-X website: "On Sunday, October 29 at 2:00 a.m. PT, Falcon 9 launched 22 Starlink satellites to low-Earth orbit from Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California."

[@REHABEAMNAMBAHU]

So that’s the satellite passing by after it was launched then?? I mean we all know nothing escapes the firmament

[@Red_Cap1231]

No it was not from this launch, see more recent comment

[@juliazahn8931]

Woah!

[@user-gf3lw5pi4t]

Cool shot

[@daveb7811]

Satellite breaking up on re-entry.

[@scupking]

Aircraft contrail. The time looks to be about 5:15 pm so there is just a little twilight left to reflect off the contrail. The camara has night vision on so it is over exposing what little light is on the contrail.

[@mistertagnan]

No. As I understand it’s been identified as a Chinese Rocket body re-entering. Even assuming this isn’t the correct object, it’s still evidently an object encountering the atmosphere at near-orbital velocities (as opposed to sub-orbital or escape velocities)

[@divot4us866]

Space station?

[@DaniMartVtbr]

Now we need the MIB/SCP joke edition, where the UFO crash lands, possesses the Gemsbok as a meat suit, drinks the water casually, sprouts wings and flies-off.

[@petercharleskoopman2004]

I also saw something strange with a redish colour at midnight last night in the south direction fish river canyon

[@stepan_bugakov]

StarLink was launched on October 30, 2023, 11:20 p.m. Compare with the time of your observation and the time zone.

[@primusstovis3704]

30/10/2023 coincides with the Orionid meteor shower. This one appears to be skipping the edge of the atmospere, you can see it breaking up as it gets to the left of the screen.

[@gareth5000]

Wow, great film of a bolide

[@steveblog1]

Some kind of space junk or meteorite breaking up on re-entry. Looks amazing whatever it is 😊

[@Egosu]

Interesting.

[@user-nr8fs4pj9q]

At zero-semicolon-twenty-eight seconds the animal appears to be struck with a light beam from camera center close to the horizon.

[@jb5music]

It is strange that it continued almost perfectly horizontaly and did not start descending towards the ground.

[@TheVicar]

Not all fireballs fly directly down to earth. Some can skip through the upper atmosphere and continue off into space. Some can even attain an orbit akin to a satellite

[@StrangeScaryNewEngland]

@@max.racing This is far above any layers of air.

[@mistertagnan]

⁠​⁠​⁠@@max.racingit is possible. It happens a few times a year with meteors and was done intentionally with Artemis 1 and (to a lesser extent) the lunar Apollo missions. I recommend googling it for more info. (In this case, the debris has been identified as a Chinese rocket stage re-entering normally, but skipping off the atmosphere is a known phenomenon)

[@atemloscgn1540]

amazing

[@culwin]

Aurora Borealis. At this time of day, at this time of year, in this part of the country, localized entirely within the Namib desert.

[@SixthWave]

What was that?

[@africatube6014]

It kind of broke apart in several pieces toward the end. May be a retired satellite on reentry. Flew like a comet with nice tail.

[@fryeguy2000]

I say the Space Station. Slow moving. Looks like a star. "Tail Effect" function of the light sensitivity of the camara? Did anybody find out officially what it was?

[@margarethughes3763]

It looks like a comet to me.

[@anglodutch8321]

Shallow-angle meteor or space junk burning up in the atmosphere. Speed is constant and yoiu can see it break into multiple pieces at the end.

[@shinodash]

Incredible! Did someone watch it in real time?

[@randyharmon280]

missed it by about 20 minutes. ... my usual luck 😅

[@paulapitman7769]

Yes

[@shinodash]

@@paulapitman7769 That's awesome.

[@BellaBarossa]

Space junk, maybe? Weren't there supposed to be some satellite or rocket parts re-entering the atmosphere around the 29th October?

[@grimslayerbrittain470]

Space junk, decends- not orbits.

[@BellaBarossa]

@@grimslayerbrittain470 this was breaking up on entry. Look at it as it disappears behind the logo and weather stats. You can see the main ball of flame divide and slowly separate. It was a shallow trajectory, but it was definitely entering the atmosphere, burning and breaking up, not merely orbiting.

[@grimslayerbrittain470]

@@BellaBarossa I appreciate your conclusion - but that angle is no decent

[@BellaBarossa]

@@grimslayerbrittain470 🙄

[@grimslayerbrittain470]

@@BellaBarossa 😜

[@Timesend]

Wow

[@josephtullis9313]

My God Bones, What have I done?...

[@yournostroleeoleeolees.]

ITS SANTA CLAUS 🎅 🎁☃️🎄PRACTICING GETTING READY 🎄

[@azukossu-zd2tp]

What was flying in the sky

[@miniminihand17]

wow😳😳

[@randycarey7487]

ITS A METEOR EASY TO SEE FROM THE TAIL BURNING OFF ITS TO SLOW FOR A COMET

[@flashfryOrder]

Hello from Aus

[@murrayblanchard317]

Super Cool...Comet

[@PurpleMick77]

It's Santa 🎅.......he's early 😅

[@annie482000]

That looked like a comet

[@j.gan.2801]

That's a meteor, you can see it fragment at the end too.

[@rainbowizzard]

there was a asteroid passed between the earth and the moon somewhere around this time, maybe this can be identified, nice footage though.

[@matthewtarka2804]

WEATHER BALLOON.....

[@Tiago211287]

It wasn't ISS? I guess it passed near but not close enough to be that bright

[@quinndexter]

It's a reentry of something. The extra "lights" would be debris still burning following the same trajectory.

[@yhbyhbb]

Wow its a say hello.

[@steveparkes8461]

Maybe its because we are currently traversing the Taurid meteor belt. Happens every Oct. Nov.

[@cuppakoffie810]

Space debris

[@Johnyyyy_]

i think its a flying star tbh (much love namibia

[@wtxrailfan]

Elmo burning up his space junk over Namib Desert. 🚀💥

[@TheDanielb554]

Nice Space X launch for starlink.

[@user-nr8fs4pj9q]

At 0:28 the animal appears to be struck with a light beam from camera center close to the horizon and then raises it's head.

[@Pareslancien]

watch at 0:48 whats coming from left ....

[@JohnLattier]

Santa!

[@Comedy4cast]

Appears to be breaking up as it goes by. Old space debris most likely.

[@stefanschleps8758]

It seems to me that it changed course as it approached and began to veer towards its right. Anyone else notice that? Thanks for sharing.

[@duncanwallace7760]

Hoba's relatives coming to visit.

[@dcasteaux9181]

What UFO?

[@bmckong]

Meteor

[@stephenphillips4984]

Too slow for a meteor. Possibly space junk re-entering the atmosphere.

[@ericeng7262]

That’s Iron Man making a return…

[@crazyworldoccupant7386]

Great news! They’re here.

[@user-mm7dd6dy3y]

Похоже на сгорющие обломки от ракеты или одн из ступеней

[@oliverjackson5070]

Looks more like a comet but never rule anything out.

[@smokeymoe842]

might be part of the meteor showers we get this time of year

[@qalitifemahasmetarmobej9011]

That’s called a comet, genius.

[@Red_Cap1231]

Not a comet. Info: Namib early morning sighting on Oct 30th 05:15am, Re-entry of a Chinese rocket propulsion stage from launch of crew to Chinese space station on 12 Aug, 2023. (Norad ID 57625)

[@retroboyone3577]

That either a small meteor burning up or space trash 😂😊

[@robertvillegas8025]

Oh please?! That is a comet

[@jeepathecreepa]

Nope..it was part of a Chinese space launch breaking up ..way to sound like you have the answers though 😂

[@quantumcat7673]

It could be a meteorite grazing the upper atmosphere or a piece of junk disintegrating in the atmosphere. I would lean for the meteorite skimming Earth's atmosphere because of its size.

[@SamnangOu-hx9ov]

It might be a shooting star

[@nikkipoohw]

🎉

[@franklinrwful]

Its a meteorite or debris entering the atmosphere.

[@mlr4524]

Space debris, sadly. More of it than folks realize.

[@macguru9999]

I would say given the gentle angle that its a large piece of space junk burning up on re-entry

[@medicvaldes]

Is that a panther?

[@skellingtonmeteoryballoon]

UFO is not identified though. Also, it looked guided , not like average ccp rocket propulsion.

[@nedkent5239]

I knew they were real! Better call Captain QAnon!

[@le_th_]

I'm trying to watch your KZbin channel, but KZbin has blocked me from doing so because I won't pay them for ad-free service. I enjoyed your channel while I was able to watch it. Thank you so much for many wonderful hours watching the beautiful animals of the Namib. Wishing NamibiaCam a long life and many viewers~

[@NamibiaCam]

Sorry to hear that. Our channel is ad-free and not sure why it is blocked for you. Hopefully you will be able to join again soon.

[@Joe_Peroni]

It looks like a meteorite.

[@paulapitman7769]

Correction, the time I gave was GMT somit should read 5.27 am